Comments on: Statement of IP Principles for Australian Government Agencies http://pipka.org/blog/2007/05/12/statement-of-ip-principles-for-australian-government-agencies/ ... taking over the world like we always do! Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:55:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Elizabeth http://pipka.org/blog/2007/05/12/statement-of-ip-principles-for-australian-government-agencies/comment-page-1/#comment-266 Elizabeth Fri, 18 May 2007 08:34:31 +0000 http://pipka.org/blog/2007/05/12/statement-of-ip-principles-for-australian-government-agencies/#comment-266 Not only does open sourcing make code available for all Australians but it protects it against the code being bought and removed from use by foreign (or Australian) companies. I don't think a one-off payment for code that is successful is adequate compensation to the taxpayers who funded its development. This is just another way that Australians lose their intellectual capital. Better to share the code with everyone and thereby keep it for the country ... not a contradiction in this case. Not only does open sourcing make code available for all Australians but it protects it against the code being bought and removed from use by foreign (or Australian) companies.

I don’t think a one-off payment for code that is successful is adequate compensation to the taxpayers who funded its development. This is just another way that Australians lose their intellectual capital. Better to share the code with everyone and thereby keep it for the country … not a contradiction in this case.

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